Special Collections and University Archives, - Selected African Holdings

Special Collections and University Archives, - Selected African Holdings

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Selected items with African Origination


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University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1962 English

W. E. B. Du Bois seated with others at a dinner hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Ghana.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Updating Lazarus on the work of her and W. E. B. Du Bois in Ghana, goings on at Freedomways magazine, a planned visit to Ghana by the Queen.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Printed in National Guardian. Discussing Nigeria and the Nigerian government; Du Bois discusses his two week trip to Nigeria. Published as "Nigeria Becomes Part of the Modern World."


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Wishing her a happy new year; informing her of life in Ghana so far; a recent visit by the Queen there, excitement about political happenings, W. E. B.'s work on …


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Reporting on the "many large questions [which] remain unanswered" following a Tananarive conference, and visually portraying the distribution of the nation's "tribal states."


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Posthumously published poem written on January 25 of that year, following the assassination of the Congolese Prime Minister, and touting the "new morning [that] breaks in our old Africa."


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

The Secretariat's expression of "deep indignation" following the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Lumumba and call for "all defenders of peace to wage immediate mass actions" in protest thereof.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Jaffe can write to the Du Boises courtesy the President's office: "This is only one example of the cheerful eagerness shown here to make us comfortable and happy." Sweeping government …


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Signed Fernand Vigne; announcing the founding of a solidarity week in support of the oppressed people of Bizerta, Tunisia and requesting that recipients get int ouch directly with the Tunisian …


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1961 English

Updating Lazarus on the work of her and W. E. B. Du Bois in Ghana, goings on at Freedomways magazine, a planned visit to Ghana by the Queen.